evolution and thunderbird

erikdhansen ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed May 24 18:02:22 UTC 2006


Duncan Lithgow Wrote: 
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 22:48 +1000, ruscook wrote:

> >> Well everyone's convinced me to look for another package to see if
> there's 

> >> someing as snappy, more feature rich, and less buggy than Evo :-). 

> >I'm not sure there were bugs in the stable release of evo, just in
> the

> >current dapper (unstable) release. That export of address book bug
> must

> >have been under dapper, that feature isn't even there under Breezy.

> >Unless you count 'frustrating behaviour' as a bug, I think it's
> pretty

> >bug free.

> 

> Bug free.  I like that.  If only there were such a release -- of
> anything, anywhere.

> 

> I was hoping Evolution was going to work for me -- with a corporate
> Exchange server, it's Exchange support was very welcome. 
> Unfortunately, Breezy's Evolution out of the box is broken as hell for
> Exchange:

> 

> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322901

> 

> It won't even start up.  It looks like it may be libsoup causing a
> problem with the evolution-exchange backend, but regardless, Evo
> definitely doesn't work (crashes the exchange backend immediately) at
> all for me.  I was suprised to see it so broken in a stable Ubuntu
> release, honestly.


-- 
erikdhansen




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